In Forster's _Mahometanism Unveiled_, several of Gibbon's statements are questioned. I have not the book at hand, and did not think the corrections very important when I read it some time {277} back. The reader who has it may see pp. 339. 385. 461-2. 472. 483. 498. of the second volume. In Dr. Maitland's _Dark Ages_, p. 229. seq. note, a gross blunder is pointed out. See too the _Gentlemans Magazine_, July, 1839, p. 49. Dr. Maitland, in his _Facts and Documents relating to the ancient Albigenses and Waldenses_, p. 217. note, corrects an error respecting the _Book of Sentences_. "Gibbon, speaking of this _Book of Sentences_, in a note on his 54th chapter, says, 'Of a list of criminals which fills nineteen folio pages, only _fifteen_ men and _four_ women were delivered to the secular arm.' Vol. v. p. 535. I believe he should have said _thirty-two_ men and _eight_ women; and imagine that he was misled by the fact that the index-maker most commonly (but by no means always) states the nature of the sentence passed on each person. From the book, however, it appears that forty persons were so delivered, viz., twenty-nine Albigenses, seven Waldenses, and four Beguins." The following mistake was pointed out by the learned Cork correspondent of the _Gentleman's Magazine_, I think in 1838; it has misled the writer of the article "Anicius", in Smith's _Dictionary of Ancient Biography_, and is not corrected by Mr. Milman (Gibbon, chap. xxxi. note 14 and text):-- "During the first five ages, the name of the Anicians was unknown. The earliest date in the annals of Pighius is that of M. Anicius Gallus, Tr. Plebis A.U.C. 506. Another Tribune, Q. Anicius, A.U.C. 508, is distinguished by the epithet Prænestinus." We learn from Pliny, _H.N._ xxxiii. 6., that Q. Anicius Prænestinus was the colleague as curule ædile of Flavius, the famous _scriba_ of Appius Cæcus, B.C. 304, A.U.C. 450. (See Fischer, _Röm. Zeittafeln_, p. 61-2.) Pliny's words are-- "[Flavius] tantam gratiam plebis adeptus est ... ut ædilis curulis crearetur cum Q. Anicio Prænestino." Gibbon's chapter on Mahomet seems to be particularly superficial; it is to be hoped that a future editor will correct it by the aid of Von Hammer's labours. J.E.B. MAYOR. Marlborough College. * * * * * MINOR NOTES _"Ockley's History of the Saracens," and unauthentic Works._--At the end of a late edition of Washington Irving's _Life of Mahomet_, those "who feel inclined to peruse further details of the life of Mahomet, or to pursue the course of Saracenic history," are referred to _Ockley_. Students should be aware of the character of the histories they peruse. And it appears, from a note in Hallam's _Middle Ages_ (vol. ii. p. 168.), that Wakidi, from whom Ockley translated his work, was a "mere fabulist," as Reiske observes, in his preface to Abulfeda.